also peter welch on the nato response to russians invasion of ukraine. republican representative adrian smith joins us talks about the bidens administration to rising inflation and supply chain issues. host: good morning it is tuesday april 26. the senate convenes at 2:00 p.m. eastern. we are with you for the next three hours on the washington journal. we begin on the news yesterday that twitter accepted elon musk s offer. it finalize the move with the world s richest man. we are getting your reaction and asking if you think elon musk will improve twitter. if you say yes your number is (202) 748-8000 if you say no your number is (202) 748-8001. if you would like to send us a (202) 748-8003 text message that message is (202 number is (202) 748-8003. you can start calling and now on this question. do you think elon musk will improve twitter. this is how the wall street journal talks about that buyout yesterday. it is the dramatic close of a courtship. the deal has polarized twi
jen: hi, everybody. as promised we have our new white house physician in the briefing room. we will talk about responding to life-saving anti-virals, he ll answer a few questions today but will come back soon i m sure. i ll turn it over to him and then we ll proceed. good afternoon, everybody. it s great to be with all of you. exciting and a little scary. this crowd. i want to take a moment to talk about where we are with the pandemic. we are, i believe, at an inflection point. on one hand, we know ba-2, the subvariant, has become dominant. cases are rising across the country. hospitalizations are at the lowest level of the pandemic. and deaths are continuing to fall. we re down to about 300 deaths a day. still too many. still too high. but doing so much for this better than we have throughout much of the pandemic. despite all of that progress and i think a lot of that is driven by the fact that we have more than 200 million americans vaccinated, more than a million america
with a world health organization briefing for last month. this is the headline. covid-19 pandemic triggers a 25% increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide. where do you think we stand today more than two years into the pandemic? what are your biggest concerns? guest: two years into the pandemic these stressors americans have experienced has exploded the mental health crisis. as we look at the pandemic and other things getting back to normal the mental health crisis is ongoing. during the pandemic two times the rate of americans were experiencing exotic and depression. we look at youth and young adults, their lives have been disrupted. we are seeing high rates of anxiety and depression in teens. we are seeing increased rates of suicide attempts. it is concerning. there is going to be we were in the midst of a mental health epidemic prior to covid-19. now as we are starting to emerge from that we are grappling with the mental health impacts of this. peopl
a conversation on mental health, gun violence, and red flag laws with hannah wesolowski . before we get to those red flag laws, i wonder, your thoughts on how we are talking about mental health in this country in the wake of a shooting at the texas elementary school last week? texas governor greg abbott said after the shooting we need to do a better job with mental health in this country. and anyone who shoots somebody has a mental health challenge. guest: thank you for having me on, john. in the past weeks i am a parents. it is heartbreaking, it is frustrating to see so many lives lost. i get it, it s hard to fathom that a person could do this to innocent lives, so mental illness often becomes a call to read. but it is written culprit. but it is rare that a shooter in this situation as a mental health diagnosis. honestly, a person with mental illness is more likely to be a victim of violence than a perpetrator, 23 more times likely to be a victim of violence than the
of texas, granted greg abbott , said that we need to do a better job of mental health in this country. do you believe anyone who shoots anyone in this country has a problem with mental health? guest: it is heartbreaking, frustrating, angering that to see what is happening. mental illness often becomes the culprit. honestly, it is very rare that a person that commits that violence has been diagnosed with a mental illness. when we are blaming until illness, we are not getting any closer to the solution. violent acts are attributed to mental illness and honestly a person with mental illness is more likely to be a victim of violence in a perpetrator. 23 times more likely to be a victim than the general purpose than the general population. when we focus on mental illness, it distracts from the topic at hand to really address the gun violence in this country. it also as to the stigma around mental health. it has a tragic impact of discouraging people to go get the help that the